Dialect or Lazyness

[Bigmallly]

Black ovvutt wife's mother's is Yorkshire for dark clouds bringing rain. Still makes me smile because where exactly is the wife's mothers? Why does she get all the rain? Can anyone from God's Own answer that please?

Never heard of that one VVG, maybe Flo has.

[Feral007]

Hi Feral Ali. When I read your posts I can "hear" you, especially some of the words like Ute and roos and whinge. Reminds me of some happy days spent down under many moons ago!

Likewise listening to you lot! My baby boys are 19 yo but I still remember the accents and all from my time in the UK. Spent 12months there in Romford but travelled all over England/Scotland/Ireland (sorry didn't make it to Wales.) Seems like yesterday listening to the chat. Will never forget the first time I heard the railway loudspeaker refer to the Boofey car - Boofey? I thought they were taking the mickey! And Caf (not caf-ay.)
Bringing back my youth being here

[VirginVegGrower]

Never heard of that one VVG, maybe Flo has.

Mr VVG says it all the time...almost as much as "trouble utt mill."

[Bigmallly]

Mr VVG says it all the time...almost as much as "trouble utt mill."

Maybe I'm missreading it.......it's an age thing.........

[Florence Fennel]

Boiled ham is 'pink lint'................

Ox Tongue is "lurper" in our house.

Black ovvutt wife's mother's is Yorkshire for dark clouds bringing rain. Still makes me smile because where exactly is the wife's mothers? Why does she get all the rain? Can anyone from God's Own answer that please?

We say ".. o'er Bill's muthers" and God only knows VVG. Being one of His tenants I'll think of something I'm sure

[binley100]

'tis caff-ee not caff-aye here Feral .....

The wevver 'ere is enuff to make even Bill's muvver start blartin'

[Florence Fennel]

And Caf (not caf-ay.)
Bringing back my youth being here

'tis caff-ee not caff-aye here Feral .....

Greasy Spoon here

[Bigmallly]

Greasy Spoon here

Or t'caravan on't layby...........

[julesapple]

Having spent most of the week sleeping, I managed to miss this thread. Just read it through....

I have no idea what sort of an accent I have. A sort of mongrel Heinz 57, I think. I've picked up snippets from wherever we were posted to worldwide. I've had no trouble reading all of the dialect on here! Someone, in a pub years ago, tried to tell me they knew I was from Barnsley.....I've never been there, but spent five years in Greater Manchester.

I didn't pick up a Glasgow accent when we lived there in the 80s but I can do it effortlessly...that's pure deid gallas! The Shetland Islanders sound very Scandinavian to me, Ananke. My Dad is from Sutherland and even though he left to join up in 1950 and has never been back up there to live, I can still hear his accent. Strangers speaking to him can't.

I'm a bit like Ali, tend to mimic the accent of whomever I'm talking to at the time - I just don't realise I'm doing it and it's gotten me into hot water more than once. I watched a lovely film the other night - Charlie & Boots - with Paul Hogan. I was explaining a really funny bit (when they've broken down and are being towed by two Bogans) and the BH says 'Why the accent?' I'd managed to say everything with a hybrid Australian accent. I also knew the guys were Bogans, but where I got that word from I'll never know. Aussie Rednecks btw.

The BH loves watching Hairy Bikers for the cookery, I just listen for the accent. My kids gave up trying to watch Byker Grove years ago.

I love accents, never waste an opportunity to improve one either!

[julesapple]

Greasy Spoon here

That's a Chew & Spew in Somerset.....

[Florence Fennel]

Or t'caravan on't layby...........

Ours is in a car park in town - Greasy Vera's - oh those halcyon days (well 2.30 a.m.)

[OverWyreGrower]

I did used to have a very broad Yorkshire accent (born in Barnsley), however when we moved over to Lancashire when I was young, my accent was so broad, I actually couldn't be understood by my peers at school etc...

My mum sent me and my sister to drama and elocution lessons, and the Yorkshire and Lancashire is now almost completely gone...

To anyone 'down south' I do sound fairly Northern (I think) but without any specific accent... to people 'up north' I sound posh; and actually used to get teased for my lack of any accent and sounding posh....

On the phone I probably have more of an RP voice than in real life though!

[Florence Fennel]

I have a friend who sounds very posh until she says "tablits" which gives the Tyke away. I was once on the phone selling a squash court to an important customer who said I didn't sound Northern until I said "glass" rather than glars.

[julesapple]

I think most of my accent comes from reading too much Enid Blyton - not that Ay think one ken heve too much of a jolly good thing, what?

So, the Famous Five mixed with Somerset, Bedfordshire, Cheshire, American, Glasgow, a wee bit Doric and some European swearwords..............that's me in a nutshell!

[ladylottie]

Ya see...........its " four coat and nee nickas" rund ere!

And it's "red hat and no drawers" where I come from (Black Country, West Midlands).